Start singing it with them. Do it sincerely. You’ll either kill their joy or you two will have a moment.

your argument doesn’t really disprove the topic of this discussion.

Topic of Discussion

I don’t know if Stockholm Syndrome exists for hostages held at gunpoint.

Stockholm syndrome doesn’t require being held at gun point.

The real issue is people behaving irrationally according to you. If you were in this situation, you would done the rational thing. Therefore, they must be irrational. They are, I’m part, to blame for their situation.

But this is all predicted on your value system and not theirs. Stockholm syndrome doesn’t take into account their story and what convinced them to behave the way they did. It a heavy hand that decontextualizes events and removes victims agency. Accounting for these may still reveal something worth addressing for a smaller subset of victims who are trauma bonded, but it should patiently and diligently center and empower the voices of victims and not dismiss them as irrational

That’s how it was designed. That’s how everyone uses it.

Puck from Gargoyles decided to mimic the most serious person he could find and serve a billionaire. All because he thought it would be hilarious. This is chaotic neutral. This continues to blow my mind.

There was a clickbait NY Post article that I’d never link to, this article (archive) is more even handed.

I’d like to try Linux with minimal commitment and no setup. Give it real test drive with some of my most important tools.

If and when I decide to make the switch, I want to have access to my normal windows machine. I’d keep it around if I need it. But prefer if it went away slowly. I want to work with and communicate with windows users with neither of us having to jump through weird hoops.

I want my printer to work.

Problems will come up, but I don’t want it to dominate my time.

I’m sure most of you will say not to worry, but until I’ve logged some real hours, I will.

Requiem for a Dying Planet was the sound scape for Werner Herzog’s Wild Blue Yonder. A brilliant film backed by this album, I feel that the album stands on its own.

This recording brings together three very disparate elements into a synergistic whole. They are Ernst Reijseger’s cello, the choral singing of the Sardinian group Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei and the soaring vocals of Senegalese singer Mola Sylla. Each is a singular expression of music from widely differing traditions; together, they’re indescribable.

Requiem For a Dying Planet is not the anticipated death song for the earth, this music is dedicated to this wonderful planet and the beauty of living which could be heavenly if religions would not exist.”

Man… This one has lived rent free in my mind for almost thirty years. I had to read this and other German tales in German class.

I am so in love with Notesnook. It’s been about a week and I fell hard. Great UI. Encrypted. Cross platform. Loads quickly. I wish markdown was native and not a shortcut though.

Unschooling and by extension, the democratically run Free Schools come to mind.

Gonna play a game of comment roulette. How far do I have to scroll before I see someone say something like, “That can’t be in their museum because they can’t be trusted with it”.

Spinning the chamber now.

Edit: turns out I wasn’t prepared for what I saw. Now I sad.

That comment makes an interesting point about how the line between human and AI contributions gets blurry, especially when both are shaped by human-created samples and digital pixels. Do you think the ability to distinguish between AI and human content matters—say, in art or writing—or is the impact more about how the content is used?

Americans love salad almost as much as they love talking about rhubarb.

This comment is an old conservative rant.

“Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more “rational” than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man’s thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That’s easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?”
- Ann Coulter

Sadly it’s been a week. I’ve read this several times as closely as I could and tried to understand where my apprehension lies. I spent some time with the wiki link to counterfactuals and wanted to really dedicate more time doing so, but wasn’t able to dedicate the time to it.

So, again, to restart the conversation, I wonder if, I have two separate confusions. The first, if consciousness is a property that is weakly emergent in brains, what is a brain?

I think I have a hard time buying that consciousness is a property of a brain and not mind. And I get that you are not trying to prove that it does. I’m far more interested in why, in the face of minimal support, we would align ourselves with weak emergence over strong emergence.

I have a lingering second problem. What is a model? In that wiki link, it has a three layer model: association, intervention, and counterfactuals. I would be hard pressed to consider the first two layers as sufficient for bing considered a model. But I think the three layer model doesn’t, as far as I’ve read, address intention, causal connection, or first order simulation. I think I’m hard pressed to see a collection of cells, neuron or otherwise, doing more than creating a response to a condition.

Do you not get the meme… It’s funny because it’s true.

Instead of measuring out your pasta, have you considered switching to Linux?

Shut up and calculate!

Mamet went full MAGA

Increase the density of air around them by ten of fifteen percent. If they begin to lie, reduce it to like 85% of normal.